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Similar in Greek academic networks, adapting to local mythology. The amount of routers and mail servers named 'Hermes' was ridiculous.

Different experience in English academia, where I encountered random names (e.g. 'mira' for a shell server and 'laplace' for a Physics Dept server). The acronyms could at times be interesting. Particular favourite was a 'central university network time' server. That was later renamed to ntp.*.ac.uk, after stern recommendations.